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Pintosaurus magnidentis

Pintosaurus
Temporal range: Late Permian-?Early Triassic, Changhsingian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Parareptilia
Order: Procolophonomorpha
Family: Procolophonidae
Genus: Pintosaurus
Piñeiro, Rojas & Ubilla, 2004
Species
  • P. magnidentis Piñeiro, Rojas & Ubilla, 2004 (type)

Pintosaurus is an extinct genus of basal procolophonidparareptile from Late Permian or Early Triassic (Changhsingian stage, or early Triassic) deposits of northeastern Uruguay. It is known from the holotype FC-DPV 1181, a partial skull. It was collected from the Buena Vista Formation of the Paraná Basin, in Colonia Orozco, Cerro Largo Department. It was first named by Graciela Piñeiro, Alejandra Rojas and Martín Ubilla in 2004 and the type species is Pintosaurus magnidentis. The specific name means "large dentary" in Greek.

Cladogram after Cisneros, 2008:

Coletta

Pintosaurus

Sauropareion

Phaanthosaurus

"Eumetabolodon" dongshengensis

Theledectes

Tichvinskia

Procolophoninae

Leptopleuroninae


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